Meta's fascist glasses to get new harassment feature targeting the Trump era

Meta, formerly Facebook, also known as the company behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the genocide of Muslims in Myanmar, may be coming out with a brand-new fascist-forward feature – AI face recognition.

Yep, now ICE can just wear cameras on their faces so they can point their guns at innocent people much easier.

The news from The Verge is paired with an internal concept that this would be the perfect time to do so since Meta's critics are "distracted." Trump has regulators on frivolous tasks, and protestors are focused on stopping the gestapo units from terrorizing our streets, so now is the perfect time to sneak out a privacy-violating feature.

Apparently, the dystopian vision portrayed in video games like Watch Dogs, where bad actors can know everything about you just by looking at you, is coming true. Of course, that is if this AI stuff from Meta actually works.

I don't know which is worse, having these glassholes scanning people to find out who they are, or having someone misidentified and harassed because of it. Why not both... both are bad.

Meta's continuous assault on our freedoms and privacy is at complete odds with many in the tech space, yet they still use their platforms.

"Yeah, they train their AI on pictures of my children and help masked soldiers profile civilians, but I can't live without seeing my aunt post another AI-generated Minion meme" – someone you know

The tech space is also riddled with "Yeah, sucks they allow hate speech on their platforms, but at least I can take POV videos of my cat with these glasses."

Make it make sense.

The Apple of it all

I can't write about this and not say something about Apple, of course. Rumors suggest that the company could come out with a set of smart glasses by the end of 2026. And no, they won't have cameras, at least the first model won't.

I do believe it is inevitable that wearable cameras will become more prevalent, but I can't predict the future of what form they'll take. Whatever Apple's moves in this space, I expect them to take privacy seriously, so I won't pre-judge this as some kind of compromise or failure.

It will be interesting to see how Apple approaches such glasses. If they existed today and this feature was in the pipeline, I expect it would work very similarly to HomeKit Secure Video – face data from your personal photo library identifying faces.

However, instead of labeling them like some kind of creep in a video game, I could see it mark a note in a continuous AI log (I mean, what are these glasses for?). Then you could ask, "when and where did I see (person) last?" That could be useful, especially from an accessibility standpoint.

Technology isn't inherently good or evil. For every atomic bomb, there's a nuclear reactor. Let's see what Apple can do in the space, because we didn't need an internal leak to know that Meta was going to be a bunch of weird little creeps.